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 8o Devon and Cornwall Notbs and Queries. to link therewith an inquiry as to whether the Hiberno- Cornuhian association thus established assists in any way to dispel a mystery in the representation of Newport, which I endeavoured to get solved just half a dozen years since by a contribution to .V. <§• 0. (ii S., i, 262). On May 10, 1647, there was an election for Newport for the vacancies caused by John Maynard, the famous Serjeant Maynard, of parlia- mentary and constitutional history (who had elected to serve for Totnes, which with Newport, had sent him to the Long Parliament six and a half years before, the vacancy there- by caused not having been filled in the interim), and Richard Edgcumbe, disabled by the House of Commons for Royalism. For these vacancies " Sir Philip Percivall, Knt.," and Nicholas Jyeach were chosen. What puzzled me before, and puzzles me still, is why Perceval was selected, and this, despite the explanation {ibid, p. 372) of that highest of all authorities on such a point, Mr. V. D. Pink, who showed that though Perceval had been a strong Royalist during the opening period of the Civil War, he later quitted the King's side and threw in his lot with the moderate Presbyterians. But Perceval's chief public service had been rendered as •' Com- missary-General of Provisions in His Majesty's army in Ireland" and "Provider for the Horse" there from March, 1641-2, to July, 1647, during which period, in 1644, he was Commissioner for the King at Oxford to treat with the Irish confederates. Perceval was of Tykenham and Burton, Somerset, and Duhailow, Ireland ; and I can trace no Cornish connection of any kind to account for his choice for a Cornish borough. He came in, however, when an Edgcumbe (and ti)at Edgcumbe a brother of the younger Piers, and a nephew of Lady Denny, of Tralee), went out. Is it possible that this supplies the link of connection hitherto missing ? Alfred F. Robbins. Notes and Queries (12 S. I., April 8, 1916, p. 299). — According to the pedigree I have of this family, John Gennys, of Ply- mouth, married Catherine, daughter of John Edgecumbe, of Plymouth, at Charles Church, May 4, 1706, and she was buried there Feb, 28, 1759. The widow of their grandson, John Gennys, of Whitleigh Hall, who was Mary, daughter of ^ Jacob Acworth Pownoll, married after 1781 someone of the (>.ii')'^ Dame of Collins. Who was he? A. Stephens Dver.